Hexagram 23: Splitting Apart → Hexagram 27: Nourishment

Splitting Apart
Earth / Mountain
Nourishment
Mountain / Thunder
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 3, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramEarth MountainThe Receptive → Keeping Still
Lower TrigramMountain ThunderKeeping Still → The Arousing

Yilin Verse

危坐至暮,請求不得。膏澤不降,政戾民忒。

Empty bowls overturned on the table; the stove is cold, ashes chill. A mother calls her children home — there is nothing to serve.

— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE

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